The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Synopsis

A different set of jaws

Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'.

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Why the fuck did none of you tell me this film was everything I love!? You all nag me to watch "The Godfather" and "Drive" for months on end and NONE OF YOU tell me to watch THIS!? A film that feels tailor made for me in every single aspect!?

It starts to lose a tad bit of steam towards the end but "The Rock Horror Picture Show" is an absolute treat from beginning to end. I would say see it for yourself but given the film's massive cult status, I'm probably the last person on the planet who has actually watched it......

This isn't a very good movie. It's certainly influential, progressive, and lovingly, hilariously free, with killer set-design and one hell of an 'Old Dark House', but it's also bonkers to the point of intolerable fatigue, and that's *before* Meat Loaf (?) bursts into a wall. Its following has always confused me even though I'd only seen bits and pieces on late-night TV, but after seeing it in a packed movie palace, complete with a costume contest, a spanking machine for all 'virgins', and live reenactments while the very same scenes are playing, I understand the appeal. The movie may be inaccessible for someone like me but having countless drunk/high midnight (movie actually started at 1:30 but whatever) filmgoers throw toast,…

This was probably not the first place I ever saw or heard or came across the concept of cross-dressing, but it might be the most formative, and certainly, out of the early ones, the most positive. That's a strange sentiment considering that Frank N. Furter is a depraved, axe-wielding villain that could easily have found his way to the lists of psychotic gender non-conforming cliches, but there was and always will be something different about him. The film itself has, needless to say, grown beyond its bounds as a mere cult object or a B-movie or a risque musical; it is a subculture.

I think my first proper viewing of the film was when i went to college. Before, I…

Went to a live showing for the first time. My reaction (which is surely not unique) was "What the fuck did I just watch?" Might get more out of a subsequent show if I watch the movie by itself, but I suspect there is a reason that people don't seem to do that....